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Title: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: ophiochos on November 23, 2013, 04:31:15 PM Good afternoon, evening, morning
I just started last night, running a Mac Pro with Mavericks. I'm not massively techy but have worked patiently through a lot of help pages to get this far:) I signed up to mine on slush's pool and have a worker, and am running guiminer. It's reporting 3 Mhash/s. BUT nothing shows up after a few hours on the slush's pool stats and I'm seeing a lot of this in the console (blocks etc hastily anonymised in case it should be): 2013-11-23 15:32:50: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 23/11/2013 15:32:50, long poll: new block 00000001ef3XXXXXX 2013-11-23 15:35:51: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 23/11/2013 15:35:51, long poll: IO error 2013-11-23 15:38:39: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 23/11/2013 15:38:39,XXXXXXX2, _rejected_ How can I tell I'm actually doing anything in the pool? On the discussion of slush's pool it says the stats are often out of date/stuck. I know I could wait a week to see if that changes but seems a bit silly... and the 'get balance' system in guiminer only gets a 301 from the server, as follows: Server replied: 301, <html> <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head> Grateful for any pointers on this... Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: Physi on November 23, 2013, 04:57:59 PM Hi,
On slush Website http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332 is mentioned, don't know if this might bei the Problem. You should See your balance on the "my Account" page. I use Slush with stratum stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 and bgminer. Works! Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: vm1990 on November 23, 2013, 05:03:16 PM we really really need a sticky to explain this its coming up to many times...
i guiminer do NOT use the slushes pool setting. its been out dated for a year now go to "other" and enter the following Host Stratum.bitcoin.cz Port 3333 all other info it the same also CPU mining is dead and pointless you will never earn any money from it. Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: ophiochos on November 23, 2013, 05:06:57 PM thank you for the tip. I used the preset settings, perhaps they are out of date, but have now entered that manually (let's see if it makes a difference!)
(edit before even posting: thanks for the definite. I didn't manage to find out about stratum compatibility but have now entered the settings you've given) I realise that CPU mining's day has been and gone, I just wanted to try stuff out and join in (I believe, perhaps wrongly, that mining is still a necessary part of the whole thing functioning?) But thanks for the warning;) Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: vm1990 on November 23, 2013, 05:11:03 PM thank you for the tip. I used the preset settings, perhaps they are out of date, but have now entered that manually (let's see if it makes a difference!) (edit before even posting: thanks for the definite. I didn't manage to find out about stratum compatibility but have now entered the settings you've given) I realise that CPU mining's day has been and gone, I just wanted to try stuff out and join in (I believe, perhaps wrongly, that mining is still a necessary part of the whole thing functioning?) But thanks for the warning;) happy to help and its always worth playing around with it on hardware you have just to get an idea of it. mining is an important part of bitcoin but theres that much hashing power out there that it would take some serious government powers to disturb it i wish someone would update guiminer even if it was for the simple things like updated pool info. some pools are the same but alot of the setting are outdated now Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: nerFohanzo on November 23, 2013, 05:12:52 PM Check if on slush website under "my Account" page, you should see last share received at: with today date.
On CPU it might take hour to get share Title: Re: how can I tell I'm actually mining in a pool? Post by: ophiochos on November 23, 2013, 05:15:15 PM hmm now I'm getting
2013-11-23 17:14:19: Listener for "Default": stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 23/11/2013 17:14:19, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2 2013-11-23 17:14:21: Listener for "Default": stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 23/11/2013 17:14:21, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2 2013-11-23 17:14:22: Listener for "Default": stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 23/11/2013 17:14:22, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2 2013-11-23 17:14:23: Listener for "Default": stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 23/11/2013 17:14:23, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2 2013-11-23 17:14:23: Listener for "Default": stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 23/11/2013 17:14:23, No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over. in an endless cycle. Is that a problem at my end still? |